First Lesson!

I got to teach my first lesson today!!! 

Note my extreme enthusiasm. I'm back in my comfort zone of actually getting to teach students, and not just sitting down and helping kids while someone else teaches. My little honeys did so well! I was like a proud momma.

The first thing we did was work on the rough draft of our winter poems. Oh boy were they rough. These little darlings need a little help, but that's why we have rough drafts right?

We did brainstorming with our friend Weston, who likes winter, and I think it really helped them see that they needed to look at where each of the 5 senses come from. We're going to put them neatly on stockings and hang them in the hall sometime this week when they don't look so rough anymore. Finished pictures to come :)

I also got to start teaching my FAVORITE subject. MATH!!!! 

We started with our warm-up on estimation. Boy oh boy do those kiddos have a sense of humor. They estimated how old I was, and I got anywhere from 19-116. 

We then used our longs and cubes to make numbers. They really got it. I was actually surprised how fast they caught on. Tomorrow we're working on hundreds (flats) and what to do when you have more than 9 cubes. We will see if we can get all of the little honeys to stay with me. They actually got it so fast today, that we finished early, but that's okay. They worked hard and were so quiet for me. Part of that may have been because we started brownie points this week. 

So many of them were out with the flu. PTL I'm still flu free (now I need to go find some wood to knock on).